The Implications of Blue Cloud

by Brian J. Dooley

IBM has raised the possibility that the mainframe of the future might well be a cloud. This is likely to have considerable long-term implications for vendors and IT departments alike. On 11 November 2008, IBM announced its Blue Cloud program to offer a cluster-computing cloud infrastructure for sale in the spring of 2008, based on a mixture of open source and proprietary software and powered by a BladeCenter-based data center using x86 and Power processors. The product itself is still being refined, and IBM intends to modify its offering depending upon the results of a number of pilot projects -- the largest of which is with the Vietnamese government, which is developing a platform to foster collaborative innovation among major universities and research institutes in Vietnam.

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The Implications of Blue Cloud1 January 2008